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Giants beat Marlins, clinch a road series. Now, can they start a winning streak?
MIAMI — Keaton Winn was in tip-top form, the Giants provided him just enough run support, and they beat the Marlins, 3-1, to clinch their first series win of the season away from Oracle Park.
Now comes the hard part.
“Have we won two games in a row yet?” manager Bob Melvin pondered before first pitch Wednesday morning.
Yes, but just ...Read more
Brewers finally break through against Michael King, beat Padres
MILWAUKEE — Michael King gets the ball and throws the ball.
For almost the entirety of his 7 2/3 innings Wednesday, the Padres right-hander caught the throw from catcher Kyle Higashioka, heard a pitch call in his ear, stepped on the rubber and threw pitches that got bad swings and puzzled takes and weak contact.
There was not much time for ...Read more
Orioles sweep Twins, 4-2, on Cedric Mullins' walk-off homer as Albert Suárez makes triumphant MLB return
BALTIMORE — Seven years after throwing his last pitch in the major leagues, 34-year-old journeyman Albert Suárez took the ball as a spot starter for the Orioles on Wednesday and threw 5 2/3 scoreless innings to help Baltimore beat the Minnesota Twins, 4-2.
As it turned out, it wasn’t the most dramatic moment of the afternoon contest as ...Read more
Starling Marte, Harrison Bader hit homers to help Mets sweep Pirates
NEW YORK — Sometime between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, the word “SWEEP” was written in the sand on the shuffleboard table that sits just inside the entrance of the Mets clubhouse. Call it a premonition or encouragement, whatever it was, it worked.
The Mets finished off a sweep of the Pittsburgh Pirates with a 9-1 win on ...Read more
Tigers rally again, but come up short vs. Rangers
DETROIT — They don't stop. They don't always win, but they don't stop.
The Tigers, who came into the game Wednesday with six come-from-behind wins (out of nine), fought out of a 4-1 deficit to take a tie game into the ninth.
In the end, though, they couldn't overcome three errors. The Texas Rangers, with a pinch-hit RBI double in the top of ...Read more
Bill Shaikin: How Harry Edwards continues to honor Jackie Robinson's legacy
LOS ANGELES — On Monday, the Dodgers celebrated the remarkable life and enduring impact of Jackie Robinson, the stories now handed down among the generations. Robinson died 52 years ago. With each passing year, we are increasingly fortunate to hear from someone who can tell firsthand stories of Robinson as a friend and mentor.
Harry Edwards ...Read more
Mookie Betts and the bullpen lead Dodgers past the Nationals
Mookie Betts continued his opening-month rampage with a career-high-tying five hits, and a struggling bullpen closed the game with six scoreless innings to lead the Dodgers to a 6-2 victory over the Washington Nationals in front of a sellout crowd of 52,718 at Chavez Ravine on Tuesday night.
Betts doubled twice, singled three times, scored ...Read more
Logan Gilbert leads Mariners past Reds for first series win of season
The offensive numbers weren’t quite as gaudy in terms of runs scored or total hits or a lopsided outcome, the process remained the same for a second straight game. In the end, the outcome of the game — the most important result — was another victory for the Mariners.
With the roof open on a clear but crisp Tuesday evening, and a frigid, ...Read more
Relying on a dash of 'Whiteyball,' Cardinals turn walks, outs into runs to edge Oakland
OAKLAND, Calif. – As if tribute to the plucky way Whitey Herzog’s clubs conjured runs when they lacked the power to just simplify things, the Cardinals turned whatever they could muster Tuesday into just enough runs to matter.
It wasn’t the flash of the classic, speedy Whiteyball but it came with a dash of defense as the Cardinals ...Read more
Padres score right away this time to beat Brewers, clinch third straight series win
MILWAUKEE — Comebacks are exciting. Resilience and fight and all that are nice traits for a team to possess.
Scoring early and playing ahead throughout a game is better. It is ostensibly easier, at least.
For the first time in a while, the Padres went that route Tuesday, scoring four runs before the game’s 10th pitch had been thrown and ...Read more
3 homers not enough to power Red Sox past Guardians in extra-innings loss
BOSTON — In their first 17 games of the season, the Red Sox were shut out three times — including twice in the last four days – managed no more than three runs seven times, and went to extra innings three times.
Though they plated the sixth-most runs in the American League last year, the 2023 squad wasn’t much in the way of the round-...Read more
Giants' bullpen backslides in 6-3 loss to Marlins
MIAMI — The Giants’ relief corps, maligned for the season’s opening week, had started to turn things around on this road trip. That is, until Jordan Hicks exited his start Tuesday, handing off a tied game to Ryan Walker to begin the bottom of the sixth.
The score didn’t stay even for long.
Walker lived up to his last name, and Taylor ...Read more
Rays rally 3 times to tie, then beat Angels in 13 innings
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The way the Rays rallied in the ninth inning Tuesday, scoring two runs with two outs on just their second, third and fourth hits of the night, it seemed like the game was headed for a wild finish.
And it was, a 7-6 win in 13 innings.
After rallying to tie again in the 10th and 11th innings, the Rays came from behind ...Read more
Blue Jays make Carlos Rodón work as Yankees drop first series of season
TORONTO — The Yankees lost their first series of the season on Tuesday when they fell to the Blue Jays, 5-4.
Like Luis Gil on Monday, Carlos Rodón had a tough time navigating Toronto’s lineup despite limited damage. That appeared evident right away, as the southpaw needed 32 pitches to get through the first inning. Twelve of those were ...Read more
Ranger Suárez pitches seven-hit shutout, Phillies' bats come alive in 5-0 win over Rockies
PHILADELPHIA — Ranger Suárez often talks about pitching through the eighth inning, and even the ninth. He says it’s his job as a starter, but it is not something he does often. He hadn’t pitched more than 7 1/3 innings in 2023 and 2022. He had only pitched a complete-game shutout once in his career, on Sept. 22, 2021, against the ...Read more
Orioles bats explode to back Grayson Rodriguez in 11-3 win over Twins
BALTIMORE — During the Orioles’ rebuild, the mere thought of nights like Tuesday kept fans hopeful.
Through 100-loss seasons, a 19-game losing streak and baseball so bad the franchise should’ve been paying fans and not the other way around, the dim light at the end of the tunnel only existed because of exciting young prospects and the ...Read more
Mets use 7th-inning rally to come back vs. Pirates for third consecutive win
NEW YORK — The pitching at Citi Field was excellent Tuesday night as the Mets dueled the Pittsburgh Pirates for four scoreless innings. But the Mets are quickly becoming known for their late-inning theatrics and it was no different in their second game of a three-game series, tying the game in the bottom of the seventh.
The Mets broke through...Read more
Rain washes away Tuesday's White Sox game vs. Royals
CHICAGO — Tuesday’s Chicago White Sox game against the Kansas City Royals was postponed because of rain.
The game will be made up as part of a straight doubleheader Wednesday at Guaranteed Rate Field. Game 1 will begin at 1:10 p.m., with Game 2 beginning about 30 to 45 minutes after the opener ends.
Parking lots and gates will open at 12:...Read more
'It really motivated me': Trip to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum inspires White Sox and ACE players
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Colten Jones made his way through the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum on April 6, sporting a Chicago American Giants cap.
An outfielder in the Chicago White Sox Amateur City Elite (ACE) youth program, Jones listened intently as museum President Bob Kendrick shared tales of Andrew “Rube” Foster, James Thomas “Cool Papa�...Read more
Kerry Carpenter helps spark Tigers in 4-2 victory vs. Rangers
DETROIT — Tough game.
On yet another day when the Tigers struggled mightily to produce any kind of offense, Kerry Carpenter slammed a 414-foot triple in the second inning and a game-tying RBI double off the left-field wall in the sixth. But when his next turn to bat came around, manager AJ Hinch called him back to the dugout and sent up Matt ...Read more
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